Good. People can wait a few days to get their packages if it means better working conditions.
Also just not buy things from Amazon until the strike is over. Real stores exist!
(I say this as a recluse who buys almost everything online)
Most of the time sellers on Amazon have their own online storefront
Yeah. Your item on Amazon often will say “order fulfilled by Company Y.” You can look that company up to see if you can order directly from them, that way they still get the sale without Bezos taking his cut.
I did this a few times. Ordered directly from the company instead of through Amazon. But then an expensive order didn’t show up. Amazon would have replaced it. But others companies’ policies are not so customer friendly. I was in the middle of contesting the charge 3 weeks later when a neighbor showed up at my front door with the package. Said he found it while clearing brush along our common road.
Now I only buy through Amazon. If the neighbor had not been honest, I could have been out $280. And yes, we do have a problem with overworked USPS drivers leaving packages at the bottom of the road.
Yeah that return policy is fucking hard to beat
Same, but I’ve got away without buying from Amazon for 5+ years now, so I’m pretty sure anyone can do it.
A couple of times a package I ordered from some random website would come in an amazon box, just because they incidentally use the service, but that was it.
They got me with the free prime delivery. I’ll get, like, a single bottle of Tylenol delivered. My husband likes the card benefits, so they got him there. Plus, sometimes we watch shows and movies if Netflix or Youtube doesn’t have them (we only pirate if what we want can’t be found elsewhere, since we are fortnate enough to be able to pay for the media we consume)
I hate to say it, but… it’s a great service
But even I can walk away, and stand in solidarity with workers. They deserve better, and Amazon can afford to give it to them
We recycle cartons at work to send stuff to our customers.
Saves a bit of money and is better for the environment.
I will openly admit I should be much better about not ordering so much stuff online.
Nothing will come out of that strike. It’s just 1 day and then back to being a wage slave. If anything, it will prove to Amazon that they, Amazon, are pulling the levers. In order for a strike to be effective, it has to last until changes are agreed upon which is impossible without a strong union.
I cannot express how much I love this. Jeff Bezos is an evil piece of dog poo… actually, that is an insult to dog poo.
You can say shit on the internet. It’s allowed 😀
I did say shit, my statement is about shit. ;)
Ok this made me laugh. 🤣
Poo sounds dirtier, probably because I associate it with actual poo, whereas shit I just associate with, like, stuff
He doesn’t run Amazon anymore.
Yeah he’s only the single largest shareholder, he has absolutely no influence at all
Jeff bezos owns 9.5%, then to institutions under vanguard each owned 6%. He’s probably still influential-based on his prior position as CEO, but he can’t force a decision that the rest of the board wants.
Poo serves a purpose. And a good one.
GOOD. Fuck Amazon and their union busting bullshit.
Oh can not wait for Amazon blaming the strike for any and all issues for the next year or so.
Well. There go the Black Friday profits.
Why? People can still order at “discounted” prices, their packages will just arrive a little late.
I’m sure actual profits will not suffer too much.
Gosh darn it!
Probably just later deliveries and new hires or more robots.
It only really works if they keep striking. A one day strike is lame
Let’s hope the striking workers can afford to live without pay before Amazon cave in and pay up!
…Oh wait I forgot it’s 2023
If they can’t live without pay, what they should really do is unionize.
That’s exactly the problem and the reason this strike will accomplish nothing, yes.
Do you have any concept what it’s like for any fledgling union?
“Lame” shows your ignorance.
ebay’s usps shipping may not be as fast as prime but it’s fast enough for me.
Yep, they’re surely not at all scrupulous but I use them all the time now, and indeed I try to buy from specific sites if possible. Amazon is the devil and they’ve had enough of my money.
USPS delivered 8 prime orders in two days today 🤷 are we scabs?
I’m mean, to be honest, yes. I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in years. It was an adjustment, but easier than you think. Most times, I just wait a little longer for free delivery of something I don’t care about getting in two days anyway. One of the other changes I made was getting a membership to a Costco type place that has local delivery for my household stuff like cereal and toilet paper. You should give it a shot.
Lol they’re not scabs. They work for a different company. It’s not USPS’ fault Bezos is an asshole.
Oh I misread that, my bad
I wonder how ebay treats their workers. I’m trying to find a good alternative but ebay is the next best competition basically.
eBay doesn’t have workers, it’s a marketplace that facilitates transactions between sellers and buyers
There are a few specialized programs ebay runs (card vault, authenticity guarantee, international shipping dispatch) where they do have direct employees - not very many I’ll grant you. From everything I’ve been able to find out, they’re treated at-or-better-than the average for warehouse gigs, and the skilled staff are treated like cattle (but cattle where the rancer knows the beef tastes better if the cows are happy and have those cute brush things)
I thought they have distribution centers like Amazon. Amazon also has sellers and buyers, though most of it is sent, stored, distributed by Amazon.
yeah definitely not. When you sell on eBay you’re entirely responsible for how your item gets to the buyer (I’ve done it). The closest you’ll get is paying eBay for a shipping label.
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Fuck Amazon.
About damn time!
not as much as I was hoping for.
Amazon spends obscene amount of money to discourage these strikes. It is a continuous war each year.
More will come.
Wait, Fucker Carlson made a good point? Broken clock is broken at least once a day I suppose.
I haven’t kept up much with fucker “punchable face” Carlson but from what I’ve heard, after being fired from Fox, he has started to backpedal on a lot of things he said and is actively trying to salvage his “journalist” career
Just to play devils advocate; his leaked texts confirmed he never believed some of the stuff he said (which makes him more of an asshole).
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was pressured by Murdoch etc. to push certain narratives.
Please don’t pity him. His first episode on his new show (Tucker on X), was him interviewing a lunatic who claims to have had a gay, drug-fueled orgy with Obama. Tucker literally interviewed this guy as if it were a serious claim, ignoring the fact that the guy is a convicted felon who is known for lying about crazy shit.
Definitely don’t pity him. This cunt is responsible for people dying. I’m not being hyperbolic either.
No he isn’t. If anything he’s gone more Info Wars style.
twice a day! don’t you dare take away that extra one from Fucker
He often presents populist ideas, even when they aren’t in line with his normal rhetoric.
I think he does it to grab attention or appeal to people with that idea. He then spews a ton of well-polished half-truths and straight lies to make whatever point he was after in the first place.
It’s not uncommon for anyone to agree with a sentence or two from him out of context, but in context, it’s all garbage.
Seriously, it’s “twice a day” - because a clock stuck on 1:13 will be right in the AM and PM.
24hr format would be once a day. It’s perspective all around
I’ve always countered the “broken clock” comments with “24-hour movement with perpetual calendar” but I get shoved in a locker when I do it
Because it’s not where the colloquialism came from. It ignores the origins in deference to pedantry.
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On an analog clock, pal. You know, 1-12. It’s where the phrase comes from. Don’t be an ass.
I’m not your pal, guy
I’m not your guy, friend.
I’m not your friend, pal!
I’m not your pal, buddy!
I did say at least once a day.
I don’t want to presume Fucker is right more than that.
This strike is sponsored by Amazon so that 99% of their business keeps on making money by creating a distraction.
Joke or fact?
Conspiracy theory, I think.
This happens every year at least for the last 4 or 5 years… My deliveries have never been impacted.
Their B2C prodit margins are razor thin. (Or they used to be, before they started fuckery with the prices.)
The majority of their profit comes from AWS which is running like half of the internet.
Ok guess my remaining gifts will be late.
Wow you bought everything from Amazon?
No but I did buy a few items. Usually I get most of it done early and have a few after black friday
If BF has lower volume due to inflation, this will actually result in more profit for Amazon due to reduced wages.
Maybe we could all get used to lower volume then if it’s for the greater good
The actual boss move would be to quit in masses and found a competing company to actually bring down Amazon. But of course all of them are utterly incapable of anything like that.
